“Well, first of all, I love you guys. I really do,” she told her fans during Tuesday night’s “MTV First”
when she sat down with MTV News to premiere her “Crazy Kids” video
. “Without you here, supporting me and liking my music, I’d still be a waitress, and a very terrible one at that. So, thank you for your love and support. And I really think that I bond with my fans because I feel like we’re all kind of in this together.”

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She continued, “I write songs that are not just for me. I feel like I write songs for us. I want songs for us to feel amazing and to have the best night of our lives. So I mean hopefully people also relate to [the fact] I’m also kind of a misfit and I’m wild as hell. My show is a fun place for us to all get together and go totally [wild].”

A lot of that carpe diem attitude found its way onto her Warrior
album release, which she dropped last November. “I wanted this record to be strong and empowering, but I didn’t want to lose myself, which is at the core of who I am, is kind of jackass. So I wanted to still have that,” she explained, noting that fans who come out to her shows this summer will be treated to a Warrior session track that didn’t make it on to the album.

“One of my favorite ones is actually a song called ’Machine Gun Love.’ I’ve been playing it because I like it so much. And I stand there and scream and it’s so fun,” she said. “I just wanted to mix sounds. I wanted to bring the essence of rock and roll, which is just being ballsy, but I very much wanted to make pop music. So I wanted to kind of mix the styles, which hopefully I’ve accomplished it a little bit. I know it’s a long road.”